WASHINGTON — Investigators found more than 800 rounds of ammunition in the car of the man accused of scaling the White House fence and sprinting inside the building, a federal prosecutor said Monday. A machete and two hatchets also were found.
The accused intruder, former soldier Omar J. Gonzalez, had been arrested earlier in the summer in Virginia with a carful of weapons, authorities said, and the federal prosecutor said Monday in court that Gonzalez had had a map with the White House circled.
Assistant U.S. Attorney David Mudd declared that Gonzalez was a danger to the president. Gonzalez, who was carrying a knife, was arrested just inside the White House front door.
At a hearing Monday for Gonzales, Mudd said the man was already under indictment in Virginia, accused of having a sawed-off shotgun and eluding police in a case this summer.
